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Art, Writing, and Learning: The Clerisy Quarter => History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library => Topic started by: Jubal on October 26, 2015, 11:19:55 PM

Title: Please observe the cutest animation of a medieval bestiary page about hedgehogs
Post by: Jubal on October 26, 2015, 11:19:55 PM

SO CUTE

(Also what the heck?)

Title: Re: Please observe the cutest animation of a medieval bestiary page about hedgehogs
Post by: Glaurung on October 26, 2015, 11:33:08 PM

Cute indeed, and also thoroughly bizarre, as all the best bestiaries seem to be.

Also, YouTube link fixed.

Title: Re: Please observe the cutest animation of a medieval bestiary page about hedgehogs
Post by: Jubal on October 26, 2015, 11:48:27 PM

I'm not sure they've done any more similar videos for other animals... gap in the market perhaps?

Title: Re: Please observe the cutest animation of a medieval bestiary page about hedgehogs
Post by: Pentagathus on October 27, 2015, 08:24:33 AM

Well, that was weird. It must have been a pretty chill life to be an academic back in the day, you could write any old armadillo and no one would even bother to try to disprove it.

Title: Re: Please observe the cutest animation of a medieval bestiary page about hedgehogs
Post by: Jubal on October 28, 2015, 10:08:21 PM

What this misses out is that none of these entries were supposed to be serious scholarship on how the animals lived. The main point was usually in an allegory or metaphor based on the random bullarmadillo about the animal, which would be a religious metaphor of some sort on how the reader/audience should live.